From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 21:31:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA5C37B71C for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:31:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f225VON08007; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:31:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Bill Moran" Cc: "Gabriel Mark Mains" , Subject: RE: Printer sharing for Macs? Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:31:23 -0800 Message-ID: <001801c0a2da$05273640$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3A9E55FF.6539FBCE@mail.iowna.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Moran > >1. The jetdirect card could only queue up so many jobs and would tie up >the workstations when it was full. >2. You can't remove jobs from the jetdirect queue or move important jobs >to the top of the queue. > >In this case these were important as the print jobs were heavy graphics >prints that would sometimes take a long time for the printer to >complete. > >I'm not "Boo Hiss"ing. I'm just saying that sometimes a JetDirect card >doesn't cut it. >That being said, if you don't need #1 & 2 above, I recommend the >JetDirect card as well. They really can make life easy for most printing >applications. It's just important to know the drawbacks. > One trick I do is I use a spool on a server, all clients send jobs to the spool, the spool only then sends them to the JetDirect. Of course doing it that way you can't mix protocols (ie: appletalk, direct jet printing, etc) it all needs to be lpr. I also agree with you about workstation spooling directly to the JetDirect, it's stupid and bogs down the workstation, negating the benefits of the print server card. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message